"He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"

breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck(verb)

give suck to

"The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

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nurse(Noun)

A wet-nurse.

nurse(Noun)

A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other peopleu2019s young.

They hired a nurse to care for their young boy

nurse(Noun)

A person trained to provide care for the sick.

The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward

nurse(Verb)

to breast feed

She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.

nurse(Verb)

to care for the sick

She nursed him back to health.

nurse(Verb)

to treat kindly and with extra care

She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.

nurse(Verb)

to drink slowly

nurse(Verb)

to foster, to nourish

Many nurse this humanitarian idea which is not specifically Christian.

Origin: Variant form of the archaic nourice, from norrice, from nutricius, from nutrix, from nutrire.

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Nurse(noun)

one who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm

Nurse(noun)

one who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like

Nurse(noun)

a lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place

Nurse(noun)

a peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia

Nurse(noun)

either one of the nurse sharks

Nurse(verb)

to nourish; to cherish; to foster

Nurse(verb)

to nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant

Nurse(verb)

to take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon

Nurse(verb)

to bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention

Nurse(verb)

to manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources

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nurse

A nurse is a person who is professionally trained and qualified to look after a patient in any health setting.

There are many different types of nurses who all get a professional qualification before they can practice.